Dictyotomaria scitula

No picture of Dictyotomaria scitula was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dictyotomaria scitula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DictyotomariaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 313.8 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPermian315–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 1 occurrence310–308 Mya — about 1 occurrence308–306 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307 Mya266.9 Mya315 Mya263 Mya

5 occurrences of Dictyotomaria scitula on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

5 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

3 formations

Flechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WAllegheny — 40.07°N, 82.35°WGrindstone Creek — 32.71°N, 98.08°W

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The named rock units Dictyotomaria scitula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictyotomaria scitula and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Dictyotomaria scitula and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

318 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Dictyotomaria scitula, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

5 references

Each of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Dictyotomaria scitula was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dictyotomaria scitula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dictyotomaria scitula was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDictyotomaria through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Worthen 1860)